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But offer them to reduce the number of cars on the road by improving bike lanes and public transit to make them a real alternative and they’ll shoot you.
No, I’m actually a car enthusiast and would rather we had more train routes so there’d be fewer people driving. Trouble is, it’s often hard to justify spending tens of millions for 3 people. Small country and sparsely populated
Yeah but that’s not how a train line works. Because a train line is not independent. Sure, you’ll spend some millions on making a new line that will connect town A with town B, both small. But the point is not connecting town A with town B, the point is that once A is connected to B, it is also connected with the rest of the country.
It’s not just allowing people from A to go to B, is also letting me, living in the other side of the country, to reach B thanks to it being connected to A and to the rest of the rail network.
Those 3 people who get connected aren’t the only ones benefitting, everyone can now go to that small country without having a car.
And if the travel time with train is faster than the congested road, it benefits everyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs–Thomson_paradox
or crush you with their car
Honestly most actual car enthusiasts i know are typically down at a track, at a showing, or in a garage.
Anyone actually on the road tends to NOT be a enthusiast and instead a regular person suffering in a 9 to 5 5 day a week hell hole job
Yeah I was gonna say, maybe not most but many car enthusiasts I know are loud about being in favor of more public transit, because:
Traffic sucks
Cars are in fact somewhat complicated and need to be maintained, when they are not, this endangers everyone, so just let people who can’t handle that ride a bus or light rail or bike
New and used car market/prices is/are a total shit show, most people are just getting fleeced
… etc
I think the OP is confusing ‘morons who are flexxing via cars they can’t afford’ vs ‘actual car enthusiast’.
There certainly is an overlap, but the obnoxious idiot morons are obviously overrepresented on social media comapred to reality, because non obnoxious idiot morons tend to not be attention seeking thus do not flood the internet with videos about how ‘awesome’ they are.
Definitely. I hate cars in general. They make just fucking going outside an awful experience because of the literally, actually carcinogenic gasses they spew into the air I breath as some daft prick drives by on their way to pick up a jug of milk; however, one of my favourite youtube channels is Bad Obsession Motorsport where they’ve just “completed” Project Binky: a Austin Mini that they shoved a v8 into and gave 4WD. It’s a really cool little car.
Really the only people that should drive are people with mobility issues, bus drivers, trades workers (though they might be able to get away with a good electric cargo bike), and most emergency response workers. Everyone else should BMW: Bike, Metro, or Walk. Also the odd project/collector car on a Sunday afternoon or whatever.
plenty of current do these tab jobs too…
Imagine if all the people who could work from home were allowed to.
A lot of people can’t, but they’d have the roads all to themselves. Everybody wins, other than the people who own property downtown, but they make the decisions so we can’t do it.
Unless some sort of external event forces the issue and then we can do it and it works great but we have to go back to the office ASAP because of reasons.
I like cars when I can have fun with them. I can tinker with every little aspect and remove components and tinker with the ECU and throw it around a track and most of all do it in like BeamNG.Drive so there are no real consequences
but they are not proper modes of transit for the vast majority
:3
I’ve been living my love for cars through beam for years now. I’d love to do it in real life too, at least a little bit, as a treat. So far I’ve been way too broke though :/
I get that satisfaction from my wheelchair. I’m unsure which is a more affordable hobby. 😛
Legit my dad, he’s a car guy with an autistic level of knowledge on every part of his cars (and despises all car companies for removing the pressure gauge from instrument clusters), but always uses his bike and public transport to get most places, since car traffic is shit here.
